Recruitment can be a long and expensive prospect but any business with growth ambitions must go through the process at some point. With the UK currently facing a skills shortage and a decrease in the pool of talent, businesses are struggling to get enough qualified or skilled candidates through the door. The tech sector, in particular,…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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What advice would you give to a young woman about to take her first steps into her brand new job? Would it be to always know your worth? Or to always be confident in your talent and ability? As part of our latest panel series, we ask some of the most influential women in the industry…
Managing your career in a complex work environment can be challenging, regardless how tough you are. We hear and read everywhere that building adaptability and resilience is key to building a successful career, which I completely advocate for, but the reality is when is too much just too much. Generally, we all go to work…
One of LinkedIn’s Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies hails all the way in Dubai, a city that has seen tremendous growth in such a short period time and continues to make great strides in all aspects of modern life. Situated along the coastline of the Persian Gulf, Dubai is widely recognized as a cultural melting…
In the busy, fast-paced world of business, it may be surprising to learn just how important empathy is when it comes to your personal level of performance and how well you can interact and work with your co-workers. Low levels of empathy can cause many problems in the workplace – it can leave you feeling…
For those job hunting and researching your company online, a candidate’s typical user journey will begin by visiting your website, specifically a careers page of some sort. They’ll probably go and look for company reviews on sites like Glassdoor to try and build a picture of what it’s like to work for your organization. Candidates…
There can sometimes be a mismatch in recruiter expectations when it comes to early career candidates and the use of technology professionally. Technology is being used more and more in the recruitment process, particularly for roles that attract high numbers of applications or by employers who recruit high numbers of professional roles on a regular…
Unconscious bias can affect the ways in which we recruit in many ways. We might overlook a talented prospect for candidates who share our own views and characteristics without even knowing it. As recruiters there really is no place for bias, so how can we stop it from happening? Or at least mitigate it? To…
Given the huge effort and expense devoted to sourcing and attracting talent, it is sometimes surprising to see how little attention is paid to playing in new starters. All too often it is a case of ‘sink or swim’, which is none too smart given current challenges in recruitment. At 10Eighty we think it’s really…